The Indian armed forces has decided to conduct a major cyber exercise called Cyberex.It is the first such major joint exercise of the Army,Indian Air Force(IAF) and Indian Navy under the aegis of integrated defence staff with participation from several other organisations. The aim of the exercise is to assess the situation,seek responses, damage control… Continue reading Forces prepare to deal with cyber attacks in key infra
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Social media fraud rose 43% in 2018: report
According to a report titled ‘Current State of Cybercrime — 2019’, released by RSA Security, social media fraud has increased by 43% in 2018. According to the report, cyber criminals are increasingly relying on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other legitimate social media and messaging platforms to communicate with each other. Further, they have been using… Continue reading Social media fraud rose 43% in 2018: report
Submit report on any adverse reaction to pelvic mesh, J&J told
The Indian government has written to US based pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson to furnish details of the number of surgical pelvic meshes it has imported into India in the last three years. The government’s move comes in the backdrop of the U.S Food and Drug Administration(FDA) banning the transvaginal pelvic mesh after women have… Continue reading Submit report on any adverse reaction to pelvic mesh, J&J told
Gujarat govt. to back potato farmers in PepsiCo fight
The Gujarat government has decided to back the potato farmers who are locked in a legal battle with PepsiCo after the company had dragged them to court for growing a potato variety which it claimed was its registered product. Recently, Ahmedabad civil court had barred farmers from growing and selling potatoes till next hearing. PepsiCo… Continue reading Gujarat govt. to back potato farmers in PepsiCo fight
IIT Madras team develops easy OCR system for nine Indian languages
A team of scientists from IIT Madras has developed a method for reading documents in Bharati script using a multi-lingual optical character recognition (OCR) scheme. Optical character recognition schemes involve first separating or segmenting the document into text and non-text.The text is then segmented into paragraphs,sentences, words and letters. Each letter has to be recognised… Continue reading IIT Madras team develops easy OCR system for nine Indian languages
Data theft bid hits Ayushman Bharat
The CEO of Ayushman Bharat has said that there has been an attempted security breach to get illegal access to large medical data including sensitive personal information. Further,National Health Authority which administers the programme has also written to all State Governments alerting them about the threat and has said that no sensitive data be shared.… Continue reading Data theft bid hits Ayushman Bharat
ICMR launches ‘MERA India’ to eliminate malaria from India by 2030
Indian Council of Medical Research has established ‘Malaria Elimination Research Alliance-India (MERA-India).It is a conglomeration of partners working on malaria control. The principal activity of the alliance is to harness and reinforce research in coordinated and combinatorial ways in order to achieve tangible impact on malaria elimination. Malaria is a disease caused by Plasmodium parasites… Continue reading ICMR launches ‘MERA India’ to eliminate malaria from India by 2030
The long wait for safety: tracking the Safe Cities programme
Government has announced the Safe City project.The project aims to strengthen safety and security of women in public places. The project has been approved under the Nirbhaya Fund Scheme.Further,it would be implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with Centre and State sharing the funding in 60:40 ratio. The project will be implemented in eight selected… Continue reading The long wait for safety: tracking the Safe Cities programme
Fire on INS Vikramaditya claims officer’s life
An Indian Navy officer has died while trying to combat fire onboard INS Vikramaditya when the ship was entering the harbour in Karwar in Karnataka. The fire was brought under control by the ship’s crew in a swift action preventing any serious damage affecting the ship’s combat capability. Further,a board of Inquiry has been ordered… Continue reading Fire on INS Vikramaditya claims officer’s life
Now,PepsiCo offers to settle case against Gujarat potato farmers
PepsiCo has offered to settle its lawsuit against the farmers who had grown the patented potato variety used in its Lays chips without the company’s permission. However,PepsiCo’s has offered a settlement on several terms which are (a)the farmers must give an undertaking that they will not use its registered variety and destroy their existing stocks… Continue reading Now,PepsiCo offers to settle case against Gujarat potato farmers
